Pence says federal election bills 'offend the Founders' intention that states conduct elections'
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Former Vice President Mike Pence contrasted Democrats' push for election legislation with his own actions at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, in an op-ed published in The Washington Post on Friday.
Pence, in the piece headlined "Jan. 6 was a power grab. So is busting the filibuster to nationalize elections," writes, "On Jan. 6, an angry mob ransacked the Capitol, largely to try to get Congress and me, as the president of the Senate, to use federal authority to overturn results of the presidential election that had been certified by all 50 states" and credits law enforcement with securing the Capitol.
He goes on to accuse President Joe Biden and Senate Democrats of using the memory of the riot to "attempt another federal power grab over our state elections."
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